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A Year of Cool Comics - Day 216

Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here's the archive of the moments posted so far!

Mr. Majestic came out in 1999 and really, it pretty quickly became apparent that Joe Casey (and his co-writer, Brian Holguin) and artist Ed McGuinness were using the Superman-analogue, Majestic, to basically tell modern versions of old school Superman tales, and boy, did it work well!

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It also made it very apparent that Ed McGuinness should be drawing Superman, and after just six issues on Majestic, that's exactly what happened (Eric Canete came on for the last three issues of the series, which were also good, but I'm just going to spotlight the first six issues here).

The cliched description of Superman's powers during the 1950s is that he could move worlds. So to riff on that idea, in the very first issue of Mr. Majestic, that's exactly what Mr. Majestic does!

First off, check out Majestic's sidekick, the boy genius Desmond. The story begins in the 1970s...

A nice bit by Casey and Holguin is the idea that Majestic discovers a giant entity that is coming to destroy the Milky Way. So the only way to stop it is to create a FAKE Milky Way. The problem is that doing such a thing, while something Majestic CAN do, it will take a loooong time, so the first issue shows what Majestic has been up to since the 1970s, and why he was pretty much "off the grid" during that time (Desmond becomes an adult genius during the first issue)...